St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-16

mum as compared with any other interior
water navigation, and supposing, for ilustra-
ton, your honorable board grant the car
riers' request and suspend the long and short
haul provision, Immediately upon granting
such petition the rail lines leading from Peoria
to Buffalo would appear before your commit
toe in person or by petition claiming, justly
or otherwise, depending upon rates to Chi
cago and the rates eastward from Chicago)
that all cereal products tributary to Peoria or
Chicago were being drawn to Chicago to meet
the rate made by the lake carriers and that
in order to meet this competition they too
must be allowed to charge q greater rate
from intermediate points,"
On the same ground the association says
Rock Island, Hannibal, East ST. Louis and
all intermediate commercial centerS would
petition for relief in competition with
Peoria, and the Pennsylvania company
would then come in with representation
that PittSburg stands i'll the same relation
as does Buffalo to the cereal products of the
West. The association therefore asks that
the long and short haul feature be not sus-
pended in any instance until experience
under the operation of the act has proven
that feature to be detrimental to the best
interests of the country" Notwithstanding
the number and Importance of the petitions
already laid before the commission, it has
practically but one question under consid-
eratlon-that relating to the long and short
haul feature of the law.
AN INDIANAPOLIS KICK.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. April 15.-At a
meeting Of the board to-day the following
report was unanimously adopted.
Your committee would respectfully report
that the business of the city OF Indianapolis,
and especially the manufacturing wood
working, gram milling, lumber, pork and
elevator interests are at present paralyzed
and will be permanently crippled by the lack
of fair and legitimate competition among the
railroads. as the result of the Interpretation
put on various sections of the interstate COM
merce act by the railroad companies and the
schedule OF rates thereupon adopted by them,
and we recommend that the board of trade
of indianapolis petition the Interstate
commission 10 Immediately interpret
for us the second, third and fourth
sections and that portion of the twenty-sec-
ond section which pertains to the issuance of
mileage tickets. Your committee finds that
while the said act positively prohibits pooling
among the railroads. yet, by the interpreta-
tiou put upon the law by them, the railroads
of the country have now more cast-iron
pool than has ever existed before, actually
creating under the new law what it was in
tended should be absolutely prohibited by it,
and believing that the conditions Of the fourth
clause of said act are the most injurious TO
shippers and are made the basis for estab-
fishing by the railroads the schedule of rates
which is
WORKING THE GREATEST INJURY
to the business of this city, we would further
petition the commission to suspend the opera
'tion of the said clause and all other provis
ions of said act which may conflict with free
competition among the transportation COM
panies of the country until such time as con-
gress can meet and provide permanent relief.
The committe would further recommend that
you petition the commission for relief from
the eXactiOns of the railroads in regard to the
issuing of mileage tickets. We suggest that
they either have no right to issue at ali, which
we do not concede to be the intent Of the law,
or, having the right to do so,we see no reason
for the advance above former rates of $50
per LOCO miles. We take the position that
there is no reason nor authority for any in
crease in rates, and that the same
should not exceed $40, which we believe to be
reasonable and just and within the scope of
the law, and that the issuing of mileage
Your committee further recommends that a
committee of three be appointed by the
board of trade. which, after securing further
facts and causes for complaints. such as may
be brought to their attention, shall be en-
powered to go at once before the interstate
commission and place before the commission
in the most forcible manner, on behalf OF this
city and state, and the business interests of
the country at large, these and all OF her mat
tiers concerning the operation of the inter-
state commerce law which may be found det-
rimental to our interests